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Great Unknowns. Moore was not worried about relapses among patients treated with K-spiked penicillin. In all except syphilis cases, doses are so large that other types present quell bacteria; type K can be forgotten. If syphilis cases follow instructions (to report for regular checkups), any relapses will be nipped...
Every element and compound can be tagged in this way. Within a few years, tracers should be: 1) marking the progress of raw materials through industrial processes, 2) "banding" bacteria as if they were robins, 3) even following the motion of water deep underground...
...report to the War Department prepared by Special -Consultant George W. Merck, CWS was carefully inexplicit. CWS had developed improved laboratory techniques for the production and study of microorganisms, methods for detecting and controlling disease, protective clothing and equipment. But there was evidence that the danger of a bacteria-charged attack was no fantasy, that the U.S. was ready to thwart any enemy efforts*-and retaliate in kind...
...Some bacteria thrive on the blackest, gummiest oil. When a wild well sprays the neighborhood, it poisons the soil for vegetation. But in a year or so, the oil is gone. Bacteria have eaten it up and fertilized the soil with their corpses, leaving it richer than before...
These hungry oil-eaters promise a new method of spotting oilfields. Hydrocarbon gases, such as ethane and propane, often leak in small quantities through the cap rock above an oil pool. When they reach the surface soil, bacteria lap them up, thrive and multiply. By looking for such bacteria, or signs of their past activity, geologists may smell out their larder, the oil pool down below...